Monday, 31 October 2016

Monday is mute on The Daily Constitutional (well, almost mute) – because Monday is the day when we post five images captured in and around London by London Walks Guides and London Walkers.

Collated on a theme or an area, if you've got some great shots of our capital and want to join in send your pictures to the usual address.Only this week the pictures are MOVING - five Halloween videos for our London Walks Halloween tours tonight…Ghosts of the Old City…

Ghosts of the West End…

Kids Under 15 go FREE…

Guaranteed Ghosts…

What we got up to last year on our Halloween London Walks last year…

A
London Walk costs £10 – £8 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your
guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all
London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.

Fascinating to peek
behind the medical screens in Royal London. To overhear, to probe, to track
what went into the notes and onto the charts and indeed into the diaries, to
speculate (well, to be au fait with the informed speculations of medical
professionals), to find out what our monarchs suffered from and died of over
the centuries. Everythig from a surfeit of lampreys (Henry 1st) to a headectomy
(Charles 1st ). Dr Barry Walsh will take us on a medical tour – we'll make the rounds – of
Westminster and share some of the extraordinary stories of famous Royal
operations (including an early appendicectomy performed on a billard table) and
treatments and deaths. We'll weave through centuries as we weave through Westminster, the Mall and
end in Whitehall. By way of example, at Buckingham Palace we hear about Queen
Victoria's relationship with her devoted physician Dr Reid and other doctors.
At the Banqueting house we hear about Monarchs as healers (the Royal touch
believed to treat the 'Kings Evil' or scrofula), the which provides a series of
fascinating insights into Court ritual and kingship in the Stuart Dynasty.

To go on the Royal
Medicine Walk meet Dr. Barry at 10.45 am on Saturday, November 5 just outside
the Westminster Abbey/Broadway exit of St. James's Park Tube.

Friday, 28 October 2016

A London commemorative plaque for every day in 2016. The plaques are selected from all walks of life, and all points of the London compass – and I'm taking requests too!DROP ME A LINE or leave a comment below if you'd like to nominate a plaque for inclusion in the series

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Noel Coward, with a Halloween twist as…

…writer of Blithe Spirit…

Find Coward's plaque here…

A
London Walk costs £10 – £8 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your
guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all
London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.